@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 11 months agolemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read"lemmy.cafeimagemessage-square192fedilinkarrow-up1536
arrow-up1536imagelemmy user(ule)s: "this sign won't stop me because i can't read"lemmy.cafe@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 11 months agomessage-square192fedilink
minus-squareMalgaslinkfedilinkEnglish7•11 months agoYeah, my mom used to work for an organization called ARC, which pointedly hasn’t been an acronym since the early '90s.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•edit-211 months agoAnd NAACP is still around, even with a name that was offensive 40 years ago, because a) it’s clearly not intended to offend; and b) the name recognition is incredibly helpful: I hear NAACP, I think W.E.B. DuBois and Thurgood Marshall.
Yeah, my mom used to work for an organization called ARC, which pointedly hasn’t been an acronym since the early '90s.
And NAACP is still around, even with a name that was offensive 40 years ago, because a) it’s clearly not intended to offend; and b) the name recognition is incredibly helpful: I hear NAACP, I think W.E.B. DuBois and Thurgood Marshall.